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Campfire Beer Pancakes Recipe

When you're roughing it in the great outdoors, a hearty breakfast is in order. We turn to the classics: pancakes, bacon, and eggs, cooked in a cast iron skillet...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Campfire Beer Pancakes Recipe

Why it works: Pine and butter work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 358 recipes. Both carry anethole, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

Campfire Beer Pancakes Recipe

16 pancakes

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

673Calories
12 gProtein
53 gFat
38 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine1 oz (28g)191
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Beer1/4 cup (60ml) for cooking43
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pine + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together358 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  2. Pine + nutstop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Nuts + maple syruptop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together67 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Beer + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together680 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Currant + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,856 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pine, nuts, beer, egg, butter, maple syrup):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Pumpkinfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pine, nuts, beer, egg, butter, maple syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.